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Friday mornings get scary - Bempah & JK elevating your vibe right in time for the weekend.

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A pioneer in the distinctly Japanese sonics of "environmental" sound design, composer Takashi Kokubo began his solo career in the early 1980s, making synthesizer compositions inspired by classical music in the vein of fellow Japanese composer Isao Tomita, but across the following decades, his productions would pay deep homage to the sounds of the natural world and its spiritually soothing properties – as both inspiration for his music, and as a prominent feature in the music itself.

John Shirley-Quirk

John Shirley-Quirk

John Shirley-Quirk has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 25 December 2018. Songs played include Mass In G Minor, Kyrie and A Child Of Our Time.

John Stanton Shirley-Quirk CBE (28 August 1931 – 7 April 2014) was an English bass-baritone. A member of the English Opera Group from 1964 to 1976, he gave premiere performances of several operatic and vocal works by Benjamin Britten, recording these and other works under the composer's direction. He also sang and recorded a wide range of works by other composers, ranging from Handel through Tchaikovsky to Henze.

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John Shirley-Quirk

John Shirley-Quirk has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 25 December 2018. Songs played include Mass In G Minor, Kyrie and A Child Of Our Time.

John Stanton Shirley-Quirk CBE (28 August 1931 – 7 April 2014) was an English bass-baritone. A member of the English Opera Group from 1964 to 1976, he gave premiere performances of several operatic and vocal works by Benjamin Britten, recording these and other works under the composer's direction. He also sang and recorded a wide range of works by other composers, ranging from Handel through Tchaikovsky to Henze.

Original source: Last.fm

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Mass In G Minor
Vaughan Williams, David Willcocks, King's College Choir, Cambridge, John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra
His Master's Voice1969
Kyrie
Bach, Teresa Stich-Randall, Anna Reynolds, Ernst Haefliger, John Shirley-Quirk, Lorin Maazel, RSO Berlin
Philips0
A Child Of Our Time
Tippett, Jessye Norman, Janet Baker, John Shirley Quirk, Richard Cassilly, BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Colin Davis
Philips1975
Three Songs From William Shakespeare
Stravinsky, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Ann Murray, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez
Deutsche Grammophon1982
Fantasia On Christmas Carols
Vaughan Williams, Dame Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, John Shirley-Quirk, The Bach Choir, Choristers Of Westminster Abbey, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, John Barrow, Choir Of Guildford Cathedral, Barry Rose
EMI Studio DRM1988
St. John Passion
Bach, Pears, Howell, Harper, Hodgson, Tear, Shirley-Quirk, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Decca1972